Changes
as of the November 2000 ElectionsNo
legislative seats were up. There were no changes in the congressional
delegation (4 of the 7 incumbent congressmen did not even have a major
party challenger).

Turnout
as a percentage of voting age population was 49.99%. (U.S. avg: 53.76%).

OverviewBush consistently had a
comfortable lead in the polls, and there were no surprises on Election
Day as the Bush-Cheney ticket won with a plurality of 248,562 votes (14.91
percentage points) and finished ahead of Gore-Lieberman in 49 of the state's
67 counties. In other races, "Ten Commandments" judge Roy Moore handily
won the race for chief justice of the state Supreme Court, and voters approved
Amendment 2 to remove the state's ban on interracial marriages.General
Election Activity